Urophora jaculata Rondani, 1870 (fig. 5)

Urophora mauritanica: El Harym & Belqat, 2017: 149 (misidentification).

Host plants. Urophora jaculata infests Centaurea solstitialis in Italy and mainland Greece and has been swept from other species of the subgenus Centaurea (Solstitiaria) (Cardueae) (White & Korneyev, 1989) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Italy, Greece (White & Clement, 1987; White & Korneyev, 1989). Records from Turkey and Caucasus (Norrbom et al., 1999) are based on misidentifications of U. sirunaseva (Hering) (Korneyev & White, 1992) . Morocco (first record).

Remarks. This species was recorded by El Harym & Belqat (2017) as “ Urophora mauritanica ”, but after study of the aculeus was identified as U. jaculata .